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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Says the principal who turned off the stadium lights on children and ordered them to go home. :shock: [/quote]

Powder puff Mom is back.[/quote]

Yes, as someone who sees plenty of real problems with MCPS, can you please stop piling onto Brandice Heckert. She’s so small potatoes and you’re distracting from much bigger issues and weakening those cases by seeming petty and whiny. She’s not going to be the one to solve most of your  issues, principals are more or less neutered in MCPS. You’re wasting your time worrying about unreturned emails and powder puff football. Plus it’s getting old. We get it. You don’t like the new traffic pattern. You want her to pay closer attention to you and your emails, and you’re ticked off about how she disciplines.. I think you’re a different person than the one or ones posting about abusive coaches. Even those people recognize that Heckert isn’t going to take care of business. Half of that is because central ties her hands. Also principals don’t like to make too many waves until they have the lay of the land. Those decisions will have to be directed from higher up. I’m not criticizing you for disliking her and I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying you’re misdirecting your attention. While you’re on here, she’s on twitter celebrating those same coaches and buddying up to central people. If you really want to engage the MCPS people, you have to go to twitter. That’s where they all are, chitchatting with each other and signing off eith  #raise and all that stuff.

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The big question is why is Mrs. Heckert focusing on powder puff football when there are real problems at the school? Shouldn't she have spent her time focusing on coach abuse and hazing, and drug use?  Maybe by focusing on powder puff football she can district parents so they don't hold her accountable for the real problems at Churchill.[/quote]

Again with the powder puff football game??  Mrs. Heckert is not focusing on powderpuff football— you are!  She enforced an existing school rule, period.  If you want to blame someone for your daughter’s disappointment, blame the seniors who broke the rules!

Honestly, I am so tired of the schools NOT strongly enforcing the rules.  I try to teach my kids there are consequences for their misbehaviour, but they are constantly giving me examples of where the school didn’t enforce the rules.[/quote]

The poor freshman class from Hoover.  They had a tyrant of a principal there and my son thinks Mrs. Heckert is cut from the same cloth.  There is even a BBB movement amongst the students.  Bring back Benz.   :shock:

Managing high school students is a balancing act.  Prevention of problems is a much more successful tactic and creates a more positive environment than temper tantrums and punishment after punishment.  After a while, teenagers start to tune out.  You have to pick and choose battles.  You also have a higher grounded argument if you warn a child first before issuing the punishment.

With that said - I give Mrs. Heckert an A for trying to keep drugs off school campus during quarter 1.  At the one PTA meeting this year, I actually liked what she had to say about drugs and what she was doing to deal with the situation.  Acknowledging the problem and telling us the plan towards fixing it is moving in the right direction.  Next we need follow through.  I will say on the drugs front, my child hasn't seen as many drug deals in the hallways as in previous years.

Now she needs to acknowledge the other problems in the school: coaches, athletic hazing rituals, anti-semitism, the math department, [b]student mental health issues[/b], etc. and present the plan on what is being done on those fronts.  [/quote]

If the schools seriously want to deal with the mental health issues, they need to have licensed social workers, psychologists or LPCs on staff. Counselors in MCPS have become glorified paper pushers, and they lack the skills to deal with many of the typical mental health problems. I think eventually more and more schools will be hiring counselors who have a clinical background. The needs are too great these days to leave it to people who've never made a diagnosis in their life. I don't think they should be diagnosing students or doing therapy in the school with students, but having that background would make them much more effective for even drop-in visits with students. I find it kind of shocking that MCPS (and to be fair, many other public systems) think certification is enough. The better public schools--often town models vs big systems-- are augmenting and having at least one psychologist/social worker on site for tougher cases.[/quote]

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